The European Union’s counterpart to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said there is no urgent need to deploy COVID-19 vaccine boosters, coming a week after federal health officials recommended them and set a Sept. 20 deadline. On Thursday morning, Europe’s CDC—the Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)—stated that booster doses for individuals who are fully vaccinated are not needed for the time being. “Based on current evidence, there is no urgent need for the administration of booster doses of vaccines to fully vaccinated individuals in the general population,” the EU agency said, adding that its “report also notes that additional doses should already be considered for people with severely weakened immune systems as part of their primary vaccination.” The agency said that the priority now is to “vaccinate all those eligible individuals who have not yet completed their recommended vaccination course” and stressed that there …